©2025｜Roger Weiss

rogerweiss@bluemail.ch

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About




The photographic work of Roger Weiss delves deeply into contemporary Anthropic identity. Weiss, a Swiss photographer who graduated summa cum laude from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Italy, reevaluates human bodies through fragmentations, hybridizations, dilations, and photographic reconstructions to reveal the archetypal form of the human being.

His work has been exhibited in exhibit spaces and art fairs in Europe and the US, including: Ohsh Projects, London (UK); Gallery Sébastien Lepeuve, Clichy (FR); Snap! Orlando Gallery, Orlando (US); Limonaia di Villa Strozzi, Florence (IT); Museo del Barocco, Noto (IT); Gervasuti Foundation, Venice (IT); Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut, Heidelberg (DE); and Kulturzentrum Alte Kaserne, Winterthur (CH).

Several of his publications are featured in leading trade magazines, including: The Opéra, Kerber Publisher, book (DE); The Song of Songs, which is Solomon's, Josef Weiss Private Press, book (CH); Doppelgänger, Image of the Human Being, Gestalten Publisher, book (DE); Schön! Magazine (UK); Carnale Magazine (IT); Digit! Magazine (DE); and Blink Magazine (Korea).

Weiss’s interviews include: Exibart (IT), ArtsLife (IT), i-D (UK), Dazed (UK), Vogue Italia (IT), RSI (CH), and NY ARTS (USA). His collaborations encompass brands such as Apple, Enterprise Japan, Amina Muaddi, and Wolford. From 2017 to 2020, he was the art director of Collectible DRY magazine.

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Selected Shows



Solo Show: StadtGalerie Brixen
Tutti i presenti che non sono mai esistiti
Brixen, IT
curated by Marco Pietracupa

Group Show: Spazio Crea
Corpo d’acqua – Liquidità ed elemento antropico
Venezia, IT
Curated by Izabela Anna Moren (Fondazione Studio Rizoma) and Pier Paolo Scelsi
Group Show: Quattrocantesimo
I PALAZZI STORICI AI QUATTRO CANTI RIVIVONO ATTRAVERSO L'ARTE CONTEMPORANEA
Palermo, IT
Curated by Roberto Bilotti Ruggi d'Aragona

Group Show: Ohsh Projects
Liquify
London, UK
co-curated by Jon Baker and OHSH Projects

Art Fair: MIA Milan Image Art Fair
LOOKING AT HER
Paola sosio contemporary art milan, IT
Curated by DOMENICO DE CHIRICO

Group Show: FUMES AND PERFUMES
FUMES AND PERFUMES 9.0
Stuttgart, DE (Catalogue)

Group Show: Gallery SÈBASTIEN LEPEUVE
21
Clichy, FR

Group Show: Museo Regionale della Bonifica di Cà Vendramin
L’energia della creatività
Rovigo, IT
Curated byi Melania Ruggini

Group Show: Limonaia di Villa Strozzi
Diari Urbani
Florence, IT
curated by Chiara Massini

Group Show: Museo del Barocco
LA BELLEZZA SOSPESA TRA VISIONE E REALTà
Noto, IT (catalogue)
curated by Chiara Massini

Art Fair: Photissima Art Fair
Welcome to the jungle!
Torin, IT
Curated by Famiglia Margini gallery Milan, IT

Solo Show: PArCo | Padiglione Arte Contemporanea
Cyclical Time
Casier, IT
Curated by Chiara Massini

Group Show: Gervasuti Foundation
SCREAMING SCREEN
Venice, IT

Solo Show: Association Oltre la Moda, Spazio Luigi Salvioli artist representatives s.r.l. LULÙ
Milan, IT
Curated by Luigi Salvioli

Solo Show: Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut
Sospension
Heidelberg, DE
Curated by Jakob J. Köllhofer

Group Show: Kulturzentrum Alte Kaserne
Start 2
Winterthur, CH
Curated by Iren Tanner



Selected Artwork


  1. Domestic Chronotopes
  2. Hysteria 
  3. Human Dilatations
  4. Flat Humans
  5. Genealogy of a Body
  6. Survey of Human Map
  7. Intimate Archive
  8. Cyclical Time 
  9. Be Two  
  10. I am Flesh


Selected Interviews


Magazine: Collater.al
LE HUMAN DILATATIONS DI ROGER WEISS
7 July 2023, IT
Text by Giorgia Massari

Blog: Exibart
OTHER IDENTITY #49. ALTRE FORME DI IDENTITÀ CULTURALI E PUBBLICHE: ROGER WEISS
Issue 49, 17 feb. 2023, IT
Interviewer: Francesco Arena

Newspaper: ArtsLife
ROGER WEISS: RIELABORARE IL CORPO ALLA RICERCA DEL SUO ARCHETIPO
the cultural revolution online, 19 Jan. 2023, IT
Interviewer: Rebecca Delmenico

Magazine: Carnale Magazine
HUMAN DILATATIONS
Issue 3,  10 pages + a limited edition poster of 100,
size 203x140cm. Sept. 2022, IT
Interview by Lorenzo Ottone

Magazine: SFG Magazine
THERE ARE NO IDEAS THAT ARE NOT CON- NECTED WITH PERSONAL EXPERIENCE, DESIRES AND FEARS
12 Feb. 2022, UA
Interviewer: Sergey Gutakovsky
Translation: Angelina Petrova
Editor: Sergey Fomkin

Magazine: Swarm Magazine
HUMAN DILATATIONS
02 Sept. 2021, Prague, Czechia
Interview by Markéta Kosinová

Podcast: SPREAKER Podcast
ROGER WEISS E L’ARTE DEL KINTSUGI
00:12:34, 02 July 2021, IT
by Alessio Bottiroli
On The Nature Of Light
Un podcast di e sulla fotografia

Magazine: I-D
I CORPI DISTORTI ED EMANCIPATI NEGLI SCATTI DI ROGER WEISS PER LA COLLEZI- ONE AMINA MUADDI X WOLFORD
29 July 2021, IT
TEXT by Carolina Davalli

Blog: The Dummy’s Tales
ROGER WEISS, IL CORPO ANARCHICO
08 Feb. 2021, IT
TEXT by Francesca Interlenghi

Magazine: Art Super Magazine
ROGER WEISS: EATING, THE ACT OF CONFIDENCE
Jan. 2018, IT
Interview by Annalisa Scandroglio

Magazine: D’Scene Magazine
THE PERSPECTIVE OF ROGER WEISS
4 pages, Dec, 2017, UK
Interview by Sav Liotta

Magazine: Digit! Magazine
AUSWEITUNG DER KOMFORTZONE
8 pages, Oct/Nov 2016, DE
Interview by Von Peter Schuffelen

Magazine: Hestetika Magazine
HUMAN DILATATIONS
8 pages, Oct. 2016, IT
Interview by Valentina De’ Mathà

Magazine: Dazed
THESE PHOTOGRAPHS EXPLORE NEW PER- SPECTIVES OF FEMALE BEAUTY
26 June 2016, UK
Interview by Ione Gamble

Blog: FotoRoom
HUMAN DILATATIONS: Roger Weiss Creates Mind-Blowing Portraits of Dilated Female Bodies
02 May 2016, IT

Rubrique: Les Blogs DE l’ART HELVÈTIQUE CONTEMPORAIN
UN HOMME EN MOUVEMENT: PORTRAIT DE L’ARTISTE DE THURGOVIE ROGER WEISS
23 July 2015, CH
Interview byJ-Paul Gavard-Perret
Rubrique des arts plastiques et de la littérature en Suisse

Magazine: Vogue Italia
ROGER WEISS
05 April 15, IT
Interview by Alessia Glaviano

TV: RSI, Cult Tv
ROGER WEISS
03 March 2014, CH

Magazine: Ticino Welcome Magazine
VOGLIO SCOPRIRE NUOVI TERRITORI DA ESPLORARE E RACCONTARE
6 pages, Sept/Nov, 2013, CH

Magazine: Blink Magazine
ROGER WEISS
14 pages + Cover, 2012, Korea

Magazine: NY Arts magazine
I AM FLESH
1 page, Summer 2011, NY

Magazine: Twill magazine
35 AN ETHMOGRAPHIC PROJECT
10 pages, June 2010, FR
TEXT by Adriano Zamperini

Magazine: Fotocomputer Magazine
ROGER WEISS
Issue 67, 6 pages, April 2005, IT







Special Projects


  1. Enterprise Japan
  2. Carnale Magazine
  3. Learnn
  4. Apple
  5. Collectible DRY
  6. Cosha
  7. Wolford｜Amina Muaddi
  8. Camilla Sparksss
  9. Schön! Magazine



Selected Publications
    


BOOK: Seltmann Publisher
FUMES AND PERFUMES
10 pages, 18 Jan. 2024, DE
Herausgeber / Editors: Frank Bayh & Steff Rosenberger-Ochs, Peter Franck, Bernd Kammerer, Monica Menez und Yves Noir

MAGAZINE: WeAr Magazine
We Are One
Issue 75, 1 page, March 2023. IT
Enterprise Japan FW23 Campaign

BOOK: Dumont Publisher
I SEE VULVAS EVERYWHERE
1 page, 18 July. 2023, DE
By Lisa Frischemeier

Book: Kerber Publisher
THE OPÉRA
10 pages, 14 Nov. 2022, DE
Edited by Matthias Straub Designed by Steffen Knöll Designed by Sven Tillack
Limited anniversary issue of The Opéra – Magazine for Contemporary Nude Photography – including its most famous positions of the past as well as new views on the human body

Magazine: Carnale Magazine
HUMAN DILATATIONS
Issue 3,  10 pages + a limited edition poster of 100,
size 203x140cm. Sept, 2022, IT

MAGAZINE: The Opéra Magazine
THE HUG
Volume X, 10 pages, 12 July 2021, DE

Magazine: D’Scene Magazine
THE PERSPECTIVE OF ROGER WEISS
4 pages, Dec, 2017, UK

MAGAZINE: The Opéra Magazine
HUMAN DILATATIONS
Volume VI, 8 pages, Oct. 2017, DE

MAGAZINE: Schön Magazine
HUMAN DILATATIONS
Issue 33, 10 pages, Oct. 2017, UK

BOOK: Josef Weiss Private Press
THE SONG OF SONGS, WHICH IS SOLOMON’S, 2016, CH

Magazine: Digit! Magazine
AUSWEITUNG DER KOMFORTZONE
8 pages, Oct/Nov 2016, DE

Magazine: Hestetika Magazine
HUMAN DILATATIONS
8 pages, Oct. 2016, IT

Magazine: Ticino Welcome Magazine
VOGLIO SCOPRIRE NUOVI TERRITORI DA ESPLORARE E RACCONTARE
6 pages, Sept/Nov, 2013, CH

Magazine: Blink Magazine
ROGER WEISS
Cover + 14 pages, 2012, Korea

BOOK: Gestalten Publishers
DOPPELGÄNGER, IMAGE OF THE HUMAN BEING
2 pages, Jan. 31, 2011, DE

Magazine: NY Arts magazine
I AM FLESH
1 page, Summer 2011, NY

Magazine: Twill magazine
35 AN ETHMOGRAPHIC PROJECT
10 pages, June 2010, FR
TEXT by Adriano Zamperini

Magazine: Fotocomputer Magazine
ROGER WEISS
Issue 67, 6 pages, April 2005, IT





2025｜Solo Show “Tutti i presenti che non sono mai esistiti”


Roegr Weiss  |  Valentina dematà

StadtGalerie Brixen
Galleria Civica Bressanone

Curated by Marco Pietracupa


February 21-March 27, 2025
Opening: Feb. 21, 2025, 7:00 PM


Es sprechen / intervengonoAlexander Zoeggeler, Präsident / presidente SKBAndreas Jungmann, Bürgermeister / sindaco Ferdinando Stablum, Vizebürgermeister / vicesindacoBettina Kerer, Stadträtin für Kultur / assessora alla cultura

Performers: Laura Cerini, Valentina De’Mathà,  Anahì Traversi, Roger Weiss







Installation views of Tutti i presenti che non sono mai esistiti in StadtGalerie Brixen, 2025

 Tutti i presenti che non sono mai esistiti (All Those Present Who Never Existed) originates from a dialogue between the research of Swiss artist Roger Weiss and Italo-Swiss artist Valentina De’Mathà on the concepts of identity, memory, perception of reality, and the present.

The spaces of the StadtGalerie Brixen are reinterpreted as a metaphorical dwelling, where the exhibition path unfolds through different levels of intimacy. 
Installation view of Tutti i presenti che non sono mai esistiti in StadtGallerie, Brixen, 2025



The gallery’s distinctive architecture, structured into a main hall and a smaller room, is emphasized through a chromatic duality that divides the main space into two intercommunicating environments. In one half, the walls are anthracite; in the other, they are white. Each environment has its own independent entrance, allowing for two different readings of the exhibition path depending on the chosen access.

In the anthracite-walled exhibition area, Roger Weiss presents three video installations from the series ‘Domestic Chronotopes: Archaeology of the Everyday’, a work exploring the subtle threshold where the ordinary transcends its apparent banality, creating a “chronotope”—a space where time and space intersect in complex and revealing ways. The installation functions as a living archive of the everyday. At the intersection between time and space, memory and presence, an artificial intelligence specifically developed for this series by Brandcraft intervenes on two levels: on one hand, it alters the temporal linearity of the videos in response to external elements acting as causal conditions, on the other, in a selection of works, it also manipulates the documented daily actions by selectively removing the mediating objects of the action—for example, a person cleaning a carpet without a vacuum cleaner or a couple eating without using cutlery. This subtraction of mediating objects highlights the human gesture stripped of its cultural prosthesis, revealing its primordial nature through obsessive repetition. By exploring the tension between the materiality of domestic objects and the temporal fluidity of human actions, these works investigate how mental schemas and the automatism of daily gestures can obscure the richness of the present experience.

Meanwhile, Valentina De’Mathà displays a selection of six wall-mounted works created using RA-4 and engravings on transparent emulsified polyester (200x127 cm), from the series ‘If You Can Look Outside, Others Can Look Inside’. These works analyze the fragmentation and decomposition of the perception of oneself and how others perceive us, rooted in psychological, philosophical, and cultural inquiries. The works resemble shattered reflective glass, breaking up our image/identity, which constantly shifts in the gaze of the Other. As we walk down the street, for example, our figure multiplies and fractures, reflecting everywhere: in shop windows, in the passing car windows, in the diverse viewpoints of strangers’ gazes. Everywhere, eyes are watching us, each seeing different aspects of us—continuous facets and pieces of our personality. They also allude to the luminous screens of smartphones through which we communicate in contemporary society. The shattering of these screens signifies the desire to break through the Maya Veil, as described by Schopenhauer, shattering illusions in search of a deeper reality. The choice to place these works on gray walls aims to overturn their meaning, seeking deeper intimacy and introspection rather than mere appearance—an invitation to dim the dazzling lights that blind us and encourage self-analysis.

In the white-walled exhibition area, a metaphorical garden takes shape. At the center of the room, Roger Weiss presents ‘Cyclical Time’, a floor-based video installation showing a man and a woman crossing a pool, reflecting a borderland forest between two nations. The concentric ripples generated by their movement continuously fragment and recompose the image, evoking the cyclical nature of time and relationships. The installation is surrounded by a grassy lawn, requiring direct physical engagement from the viewer to approach the work.
On the surrounding white walls, Valentina De’Mathà presents a selection of five works (160x106 cm) from the ‘Four Seasons’ series, created in a darkroom using experimental chemical processes on emulsified paper. These works also explore the fluidity between transitions, the blurred and overlapping margins between what ends and what emerges in the cyclical flow of events. Humanity, by existing in the world and being part of it, constantly relativizes and transforms it. The glossiness of the papers allows the viewer to become part of the work, reflecting their surroundings—just as they are part of the world—creating ever-changing possibilities: dynamic, unpredictable realities that vary in their repetition.

The smaller room, representing the most intimate part of the house, hosts four video projections by Roger Weiss, completing the ‘Domestic Chronotopes’ series with scenes linked to the intimacy of a bathroom: a woman in a bathtub, a toilet, a bidet, and a sink documenting daily rituals. In dialogue with these works, Valentina De’Mathà presents a triptych on emulsified polyester simulating a landscape extending beyond a window—the relationship between the Self (Selbst) and the Other. The exhibition thus creates an immersive experience, inviting the visitor to explore different levels of intimacy and perception.
The works of both artists, while maintaining their distinct technical and conceptual approaches, create a dialectical vision through reflections on memory and temporality (both cyclical and layered), the transformation of daily perception, the tension between material and immaterial, between the representation of facts and cultural psychological analysis. They explore where the familiar and the extraordinary merge, where the personal becomes universal, and where the viewer is invited to rediscover an awareness that reconnects them to the richness of the present.
The temporal modulation of Roger Weiss’ videos naturally generates an alteration of sound, creating a surreal soundscape that enhances the sense of estrangement. The sum of sounds from the different works and perspectives forms a symphony of the everyday, amplifying the exhibition’s perceptual experience.


Installation views of Tutti i presenti che non sono mai esistiti in StadtGalerie, Brixen, 2025



Intervengono Alexander Zoeggeler, Präsident / presidente SKB Andreas Jungmann, Bürgermeister / sindaco Ferdinando Stablum, Vizebürgermeister / vicesindaco Bettina Kerer, Stadträtin für Kultur / assessora alla cultura

21.2.2025 - 27.3.2025

orari di apertura
martedì - venerdì ore 16:00 - 19:00
sabato 10:00 - 13:00
lunedì chiuso

StadtGalerie Brixen / Galleria Civica di Bressanone
Große Lauben 5 / Portici Maggiori 5
39042 Brixen / Bressanone 




Backstage of Tutti i presenti che non sono mai esistiti, StadtGallerie, Brixen, 2025




Domestic Chronotopes: Archaeology of the Everyday
Cyclical Time